2022 Mexico Open at Vidanta Picks: How to Bet This Week’s PGA Tour Event (Archive)
This week sees a new event on the PGA Tour as they move to Latin America for the Mexico Open, an event founded in 1944 but now elevated to PGA Tour status after recent years of wilderness on the South American Tour.
The course is a resort-style, wide fairway easy test for the professionals that requires a precarious crossing over a flimsy-looking bridge across crocodile-infested waters that may need safer negotiation than the fairways from reports.
I’ve been informed the Paspalum greens are expected to be slower and grainier than normal PGA Tour weeks and there may be some who struggle to adjust.
2022 Mexico Open
April 28 – May 1, 2022 – at Vidanta
Par 71, 7457 yards
Cameron Can Be the Mexico Open Champ
Cameron Champ put in an eye-catching performance at the Masters Tournament when he finished 10th a couple of weeks ago to hopefully kick start his 2022. The twenty-six-year-old from Sacramento, California has been prone to huge swings in form during his short PGA Tour career.
He does demand the highest respect in form as a player who knows how to win and close out tournaments with three PGA Tour Titles already bagged. That performance at the Masters came out of the blue but he’s already shown a propensity to be suited by Augusta National where his distance off the tee is an advantage.
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I think this week’s resort-style test will be well suited to Champ with the wide fairways allowing one of the PGA Tour’s longest hitters to freewheel off the tee. I mentioned his huge ebbs and flows in form and each time he has won on the PGA Tour it was when backing up an eye-catching performance previously.
Putting Cameron Champ amongst your best bets at this week’s 2022 Mexico Open makes a ton of sense from those perspectives so I suggest adding him at the attractive price of +5000 at the betting odds
The Picks
Golf Pick: Cameron Champ Win (+5000) with GTbets (visit our GTbets Review)
Golf Pick: Cameron Champ Top 10 (+500) with BetOnline (visit our BetOnline Review)
Nate Lashley
Paspalum greens are very much an acquired taste for PGA Tour professionals. Many dislike the slower surfaces after years of being spoilt on mainland United States. When the PGA Tour visits South America though, these are usually the putting surfaces that test the players.
One player who has no troubles or concerns on the greens is thirty-nine-year-old Nate Lashley who served a prolonged apprenticeship on the Latin America and Korn Ferry Tours.
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On those tours, the University of Arizona graduate, plied his trade for many years with noticeable success, the highlight being winning the 2016 Latin America Tour Order of Merit. With a slew of top 5 finishes accumulated in Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, and Peru there’s little wonder he’s specialized in similar events on the PGA Tour.
Recently, he finished 15th at the Corales Punta Cana Championship and 7th at the Puerto Rico Open to illustrate how much he likes this sort of agronomy and importantly, for bettors, shows his game to be in fine fettle.
I was pleasantly surprised to see quotes of +11000 with Gtbets about Nate Lashley winning a second PGA Tour title to add to his 2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic win at this week’s 2022 Mexico Open at Vidanta.
The Picks
Golf Pick: Nate Lashley Win (+110) with GTbets
Golf Pick: Nate Lashley Top 10 (+850) with BetOnline
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